Current global economic trends create a new economic environment for Croatia. They could be described, by two processes amongst others. The first is clear enough abandonment of basic determinants of transitional economic policy defined as ‘Washington consensus’. Change of ‘tide’ could be...

The importance and the complexity of financial decision-making process are the reasons why so much work has been invested over the years in formulating methods that would realistically treat this issue. The requirement for adequate and effective methods and procedures is justified by very high...

Economic integration can cause significant adjustment costs and call for economic structure flexibility which will make the relocation of production factors within or between industries less expensive. Based on new trade theory, the integrated economy approach allows an insight into different...

The paper explores differences as well as commonalities in corporate risk management practices and risk exposures in the large non-financial Slovenian and Croatian companies. Comparative analysis of survey results have revealed that the majority of analysed companies in both Croatia and Slovenia...

The external supply of logistics services is part of a trend toward outsourcing non-core logistics activities. The scope of third-party logistics may range from a relatively limited combination of activities (e.g. transportation, packaging and warehousing) to a comprehensive set of logistics...

Turkey has been highly dependable on foreign production goods for Its domestic production since 1980. This necessitates estimation of income, relative import price, exchange rate and term of trade elasticities of investment and intermediate goods import demand to manage trade deficit. Assuming...

Although many organisations worldwide are introducing knowledge management (KM) practices, there is no generally acknowledged methodology for assessing where the organisation stands, compared to its competitors. Several knowledge management maturity models have been developed, but they are so...

This paper analyses the effects which tax competition has on corporate income taxation in the new European Union Member States. The panel analysis, which was conducted, did not determine the existence of tax competition in a form that can be called harmful and which would lead to suboptimal...

This paper examines the importance of Research and Development activities as a source of growth in labor productivity in the Canadian economy within last four decades. Time series data are used to develop an econometrics model that captures the interaction between labor productivity and R&D,...

Apart from elaborating the concept of occupational stress, the research had two objectives: (1) to measure occupational stress levels among different categories of employees working in Croatian enterprises, and (2) to study and analyze stress in Croatia in relation to individual differences. The...